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Reverse Engineering Java Code to Class Diagram: An Experience Report
| International Journal of Computer Applications |
| Foundation of Computer Science (FCS), NY, USA |
| Volume 29 - Number 6 |
| Year of Publication: 2011 |
| Authors: Shivani Budhkar, Dr. Arpita Gopal |
10.5120/3567-4915
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Shivani Budhkar, Dr. Arpita Gopal . Reverse Engineering Java Code to Class Diagram: An Experience Report. International Journal of Computer Applications. 29, 6 ( September 2011), 36-43. DOI=10.5120/3567-4915
Abstract
Software Engineering research and industry recognize the need for practical tools to support reverse engineering activities. Most of the well-known CASE-tools nowadays support reverse engineering in some way or other. Reverse engineering is first step towards software Architecture recovery. The most commonly used standard today is Unified Modeling Language to depict the architecture and design of an application. An UML class diagram describes the architecture of object oriented programs. Class diagram captures the essence of its design. Most of the existing systems do not have reliable software architecture and some legacy systems are designed without software architecture design phase. By using reverse engineering tools we can generate class diagram as part of software architecture recovery. In this paper we assess capabilities of software reverse engineering tools to generate class diagram from java source code.
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